Cindy Bradford's Author Blog
School days, school days, dear old wonderful school days. I can hear the bells ringing, and so glad I don’t have to be there! This time every year, I always say a little prayer of gratitude that those days are behind me. [Read more…] about School is Starting — A Good Reason for Retirement
Heading to Dallas… Although that area was home for 25 years, I don’t get that way very often, so I am excited and looking forward to it. I’m having lunch with a group of educational colleagues that I haven’t seen in quite some time, so I’m sure we’ll have stories to tell. If you are a former student and your ears burn this week, that’s why! [Read more…] about Reminiscing in Dallas
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I grew up in Kilgore, Texas, in the East Texas Piney Woods, went to Baylor University in Waco, TX before I ended up in Dallas for 25 years. I now live at South Padre Island, Texas, at the southern most tip of the state.
I don’t ever remember not writing. In high school I wrote poetry, but even before that when I was just a little girl I wanted to be a journalist, so I wrote little stories on leftover typing paper at my house. In college I wrote feature stories for a local newspaper and for the college newspaper.
I taught English and journalism and then became director of communications for the school district. In that job, I wrote stories every day. I had numerous articles published in professional journals, but I always wanted to write a novel. When I retired, I began my first novel, which turned out to be Keeping Faith.
Although I get zillions of emails with jokes, etc, I have managed to refrain from using any of them until now, but I just couldn’t resist this photo that I am borrowing from some unknown source. This reaches to the bottom of the wine barrel I know, but some days you just have to go with the flow…you never know where technology may lead…
When I was talking to the interviewer right before my first radio program, she was stressing to me that it was important not to be nervous so she said, “just think about all those students you have stood up in front of over the years, and they weren’t even interested in what you were saying; the radio audience is.” [Read more…] about Students Say the Weirdest Things
I was looking at my Wine Spectator magazine a few days ago, and while perusing the advertisements had a thought—scary, huh? I actually thought it pretty good. Instead of using milk cartons to post pictures of missing kids, why not use wine bottles? [Read more…] about New Use For Wine Bottles
